Adam Woodruff

How many times have you been working on a document, making a system change or trying to code a late-breaking change only to have it all go wrong. We've all had that sinking feeling where we have kicked off a series of events only to wish we could roll back time and make it undo itself. Unfortunately for all of us these things happen and it seems that the first thought that crosses our minds is "Time to polish off the old resume." However, if you have taken some time and prepared for this day all is not lost. Recovering from a SharePoint blunder, accident, or complete disaster is a necessity to prepare for should an organization place value on its intellectual property, employee time utilization or corporate image. At some point an organization will find itself in the tenuous situation of trying to decide to what extent it should go to recover what's been lost, over... (more)

All Roads Lead to SharePoint

Corporate IT organizations have deployed numerous platforms over the years to enable users to collaborate on and share unstructured documents, files, and other data. File shares, document management systems, e-mail servers, Web servers - chances are that most of these are still in use in your company. New user requirements and technical capabilities have driven this evolution, and the result is a scattered variety of platforms that have become unwieldy and expensive to manage. Since the release of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server in January 2007, companies have been evaluating... (more)

.NET Feature: Take Control of SharePoint: Here's How

Like many world-changing technologies before it, SharePoint has caught IS organizations off-guard. Early adopters within the business established SharePoint environments on their own. These users assumed they could manage these environments independently without IS's knowledge or perhaps with tacit consent. SharePoint environments began proliferating throughout many organizations. Quickly, these environments needed maintenance at a level these business users couldn't handle, and that's when things got interesting. SharePoint has grown to become a core information platform for many... (more)

Can Someone Please Clone Me

I keep finding myself standing in front of the mirror and no matter how hard I concentrate I cannot seem to split my atoms and create a clone of myself. While this is an extreme thought, it seems to be a fairly common thread when I am out in the field meeting with SharePoint administrators. The unprepared SharePoint team can easily become overwhelmed by the system. I wanted to take some of the time I normally dedicate to writing articles and dig into what is happening out there and what you and your organization can do to avoid this situation. Over the past few years, SharePoint... (more)